Rutgers officials today named the remaining seven members of a committee that will begin an inquiry into the university's athletics department -- including a former state Supreme Court justice, a one-time federal judge and a member of the board of governors.

The committee was set up a week ago, following a series of stories in The Star-Ledger documenting dealings with the university's exclusive sports marketing agent under a no-bid contract and other undisclosed expenses by the athletics department.

"When issues of transparency and trust are raised, whether for institutions or individuals, it is clearly a very serious matter," said Al Koeppe, the committee's co-chairman and chief executive of the Newark Alliance.

Koeppe and Al Gamper, former chairman of the university's board of governors, were named last week to head the committee by Rutgers president Richard L. McCormick, in calling for what he said would be a "complete and candid" review of the the university's Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.

Joining the committee will be James Coleman, a former Supreme Court justice; Gabriella Morris, president of The Prudential Foundation; Frederick Lacey, who served as a U.S. district judge and as U.S. attorney; Dennis Bone, president of Verizon, New Jersey; Patricia Nachtigal, senior vice president, general counsel and a director of Ingersoll-Rand, who currently serves as vice chairwoman of the Rutgers board of governors; Hollis Copeland, with Williams Capital Group, a former Rutgers basketball star and member of the Rutgers board of trustees; and Abram Suydam, a Suydam Insurance Agency senior partner who served as a member of the board of trustees for eight years.